Edmund Stoney was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Stoney was born in Newport, Tipperary, Ireland, in 1790. Around 1812, he converted to Methodism, and soon began working as an exhorter and a class leader. In 1818 he emigrated to Upper Canada, settling in Burford, where he began work as a local preacher. In 1823, he began circuit riding, and was assigned to the Dumfries' circuit.[1]
Notes
edit- ^ Carroll, volume II, page 469
References
edit- Carroll, John (1869). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. II. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office.